James Silverton wrote:

    > Martin wrote on Tue, 25 Jul 2006 18:33:56 +0200:
    > ??>> Martin writes:
    > ??>>
    > ??>>> Everything military has been snipped.
    > ??>>>
    > ??>>> Look at Cap La Hague nuclear reprocessing site with
    > ??>>> Geoportail and Google Earth.
    > ??>>
    > ??>> Well, that would not surprise me. France doesn't have a
    > ??>> free press. And the military still wields undue and
    > ??>> surprising influence.
    > M> Unlike the USA?
    > I just tried and you can get a fairly high resolution view of
    > 1600 Pennsylvania Av, NW, Washington DC tho' not 3-d buildings.


Are the roofs of the White House and it's directly - adjoining
buildings blanked - out...???

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Martin wrote:

    > On 25 Jul 2006 10:03:45 -0700, "Gregory Morrow"
    > <[email protected]> wrote:
    > >
    > >Jacqueline wrote:
    > >
    > >> On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 16:18:17 GMT, "Gregory Morrow"
    > >> <[email protected]> wrote:
    > >>
    > >> >
    > >> ><Jacqueline> wrote:
    > >> >
    > >> >> On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 15:20:22 +0200, Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
    > >> >>
    > >> >> >On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 14:38:20 +0200, Mxsmanic <[email protected]>
    > >> >> >wrote:
    > >> >> >
    > >> >> >>Martin writes:
    > >> >> >>
    > >> >> >>> http://www.geoportail.fr
    > >> >> >>
    > >> >> >>In what was is it censored?
    > >> >> >
    > >> >> >Everything military has been snipped.
    > >> >> >
    > >> >> >Look at Cap La Hague nuclear reprocessing site with Geoportail and
    > >> >> >Google Earth.
    > >> >>
    > >> >> Wow....our Martin has a new job: a spy! His nickname? Porky 007
    > >> >>
    > >> >
    > >> >
    > >> >Have you been fitted with your new dutch cap yet, luv...???
    > >>
    > >> **** off...SCHWEIN!
    > >
    > >
    > >M'dear, you are just so very "soignee"...
    > Porky & gRunge have had their trotters on her again.


"A pig in a poke..."

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In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] (Mxsmanic) wrote:

    > *From:* Mxsmanic <[email protected]>
    > *Date:* Tue, 25 Jul 2006 17:47:31 +0200
    >
    > Martin writes:
    >
    > > Everything military has been snipped.
    > >
    > > Look at Cap La Hague nuclear reprocessing site with Geoportail and
    > > Google Earth.
    >
    > Well, that would not surprise me. France doesn't have a free press.

It came 30th in last years Reporters sans Frontieres ranking of nations by
press freedom - not perfect, but ahead of Australia, the U.S. and Japan,
for example.

On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 18:39:52 +0200, Martin <[email protected]> wrote:

    >On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 16:18:17 GMT, "Gregory Morrow"
    ><[email protected]> wrote:
    >><Jacqueline> wrote:
    >>> On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 15:20:22 +0200, Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
    >>> >On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 14:38:20 +0200, Mxsmanic <[email protected]>
    >>> >wrote:
    >>> >
    >>> >>Martin writes:
    >>> >>
    >>> >>> http://www.geoportail.fr
    >>> >>
    >>> >>In what was is it censored?
    >>> >
    >>> >Everything military has been snipped.
    >>> >
    >>> >Look at Cap La Hague nuclear reprocessing site with Geoportail and
    >>> >Google Earth.
    >>> Wow....our Martin has a new job: a spy! His nickname? Porky 007
    >>Have you been fitted with your new dutch cap yet, luv...???
    >She gets them recycled from Leger des Heils.


There's where Martin gets his underwear!

Jacqueline

Gregory Morrow wrote:
    > Martin wrote:
    > > On 25 Jul 2006 10:03:45 -0700, "Gregory Morrow"
    > > <[email protected]> wrote:
    > >
    > > >
    > > >Jacqueline wrote:
    > > >
    > > >> On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 16:18:17 GMT, "Gregory Morrow"
    > > >> <[email protected]> wrote:
    > > >>
    > > >> >
    > > >> ><Jacqueline> wrote:
    > > >> >
    > > >> >> On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 15:20:22 +0200, Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
    > > >> >>
    > > >> >> >On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 14:38:20 +0200, Mxsmanic <[email protected]>
    > > >> >> >wrote:
    > > >> >> >
    > > >> >> >>Martin writes:
    > > >> >> >>
    > > >> >> >>> http://www.geoportail.fr
    > > >> >> >>
    > > >> >> >>In what was is it censored?
    > > >> >> >
    > > >> >> >Everything military has been snipped.
    > > >> >> >
    > > >> >> >Look at Cap La Hague nuclear reprocessing site with Geoportail and
    > > >> >> >Google Earth.
    > > >> >>
    > > >> >> Wow....our Martin has a new job: a spy! His nickname? Porky 007
    > > >> >>
    > > >> >
    > > >> >
    > > >> >Have you been fitted with your new dutch cap yet, luv...???
    > > >>
    > > >> **** off...SCHWEIN!
    > > >
    > > >
    > > >M'dear, you are just so very "soignee"...
    > >
    > > Porky & gRunge have had their trotters on her again.
    >
    >
    > "A pig in a poke..."
    >

shes crackling up :)

Martin writes:

    > Unlike the USA?

Unlike the USA, yes. Look at the sad state of cryptography in France,
due in large part to the military.

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Gregory Morrow writes:

    > Are the roofs of the White House and it's directly - adjoining
    > buildings blanked - out...???

Some of the roof area on the White House has been retouched on Google
Maps. It's not a very good job.

I just tried Geoportail; the image quality is almost unusably poor,
and looks like a sick joke compared to Google Maps. And this is for
the center of Paris! The site is also designed more poorly and the
response time is worse. If they can't do it right, why don't they
just give up?

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Leffe wrote:

    > Gregory Morrow wrote:
    > > Martin wrote:
    > >
    > > > On 25 Jul 2006 10:03:45 -0700, "Gregory Morrow"
    > > > <[email protected]> wrote:
    > > >
    > > > >
    > > > >Jacqueline wrote:
    > > > >
    > > > >> On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 16:18:17 GMT, "Gregory Morrow"
    > > > >> <[email protected]> wrote:
    > > > >>
    > > > >> >
    > > > >> ><Jacqueline> wrote:
    > > > >> >
    > > > >> >> On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 15:20:22 +0200, Martin <[email protected]>
wrote:
    > > > >> >>
    > > > >> >> >On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 14:38:20 +0200, Mxsmanic
<[email protected]>
    > > > >> >> >wrote:
    > > > >> >> >
    > > > >> >> >>Martin writes:
    > > > >> >> >>
    > > > >> >> >>> http://www.geoportail.fr
    > > > >> >> >>
    > > > >> >> >>In what was is it censored?
    > > > >> >> >
    > > > >> >> >Everything military has been snipped.
    > > > >> >> >
    > > > >> >> >Look at Cap La Hague nuclear reprocessing site with Geoportail
and
    > > > >> >> >Google Earth.
    > > > >> >>
    > > > >> >> Wow....our Martin has a new job: a spy! His nickname? Porky 007
    > > > >> >>
    > > > >> >
    > > > >> >
    > > > >> >Have you been fitted with your new dutch cap yet, luv...???
    > > > >>
    > > > >> **** off...SCHWEIN!
    > > > >
    > > > >
    > > > >M'dear, you are just so very "soignee"...
    > > >
    > > > Porky & gRunge have had their trotters on her again.
    > >
    > >
    > > "A pig in a poke..."
    > >
    > shes crackling up :)


Her face at least :o)

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Mxsmanic wrote:

    > Gregory Morrow writes:
    > > Are the roofs of the White House and it's directly - adjoining
    > > buildings blanked - out...???
    > Some of the roof area on the White House has been retouched on Google
    > Maps. It's not a very good job.
    > I just tried Geoportail; the image quality is almost unusably poor,
    > and looks like a sick joke compared to Google Maps. And this is for
    > the center of Paris! The site is also designed more poorly and the
    > response time is worse. If they can't do it right, why don't they
    > just give up?


Does this site also display the French penchant for Flash...???

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Mxsmanic a émis l'idée suivante :
    > I just tried Geoportail; the image quality is almost unusably poor,
    > and looks like a sick joke compared to Google Maps. And this is for
    > the center of Paris!

Try with Argenton-sur-Creuse, or Pont-l'Evêque (in the Calvados dept)
...

You know, not every French lives in Paris. Géoportail was designed to
have an equal image quality throughout France, to the Louvre pyramid to
the smallest villages in the Morvan. Of course, when you compare big
cities, Google Earth wins by far.

And the images they use are not satellite ones, and they are true
color.

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Mxsmanic avait énoncé :
    > Martin writes:
    >> Unlike the USA?
    > Unlike the USA, yes. Look at the sad state of cryptography in France,
    > due in large part to the military.

What is the link between cryptography and the free press ?

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Gregory Morrow writes:

    > Does this site also display the French penchant for Flash...???

No, thank goodness. Don't give them any ideas.

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Mxsmanic avait énoncé :
    > Gregory Morrow writes:
    >> Does this site also display the French penchant for Flash...???
    > No, thank goodness. Don't give them any ideas.

But you said that the French can't design a website without Flash. It
seems you should reconsider this statement.

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Stanislas de Kertanguy writes:

    > But you said that the French can't design a website without Flash.

Maybe they hired designers from abroad.

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Stanislas de Kertanguy writes:

    > You know, not every French lives in Paris.

Every French what?

    > Géoportail was designed to have an equal image quality throughout
    > France, to the Louvre pyramid to the smallest villages in the
    > Morvan. Of course, when you compare big cities, Google Earth wins by far.

Ah, so Géoportail has a secret database of ultra-high-resolution
images, and deliberately blurs them so that every square metre of
France looks like it was last photographed in 1952?

    > And the images they use are not satellite ones, and they are true
    > color.

So they _were_ photographed in 1952!

And I saw the very crude masking of some seaside facility in Le Havre.
I can't believe people are still doing that. Perhaps France is still
doing aerial photography from biplanes, but the bad guys have
satellites now, and the best satellites now can read your wristwatch
from altitude.

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